ziarah

Indonesian

Alternative forms

jiarah, ziarat (nonstandard)

Etymology

From Malay ziarah, from Arabic زِيَارَة (ziyāra).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ziˈarah/ [ziˈa.rah]
Rhymes: -arah
Syllabification: zi‧a‧rah

Noun

ziarah (plural ziarah-ziarah)

pilgrimage (a visit to a sacred place)

Verb

ziarah

(intransitive, informal) to pilgrimage
Synonym: berziarah

Derived terms

(intransiitve) berziarah (“to pilgrimage”)
(transitive) menziarahi (“to pilgrimage to”)
penziarah (“pilgrim”)
penziarahan (“pilgrimage”)
peziarah (“pilgrim”)

References

^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎^[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading

“ziarah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.